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When last we heard, the caravans of rabid child rapists and their drug-dealing mothers were almost at our southern border, to which our gallant troops had rushed to make a last desperate defense of the homeland against this pestilential invasion. That was, what? six months ago? Just before the election, as I recall. Time to get an update on the migration invasions.
Here’s one the Trumpits haven’t blown about: thousands of desperate people — 6,000 every per day at just one crossing point in Yuma, Arizona — swarming across our southern border in search of help. These people represent an existential threat to the US economy, yet the troops already deployed to the border have not been used to stop them.
But wait, there’s more. An organized caravan of migrants on a 600-mile trek across our northern border, all of them intent on wrecking our economy and soaking up free socialistic benefits. Where, you might ask, is the wall that could put a stop to this?
Couple of interesting details. That southern migration, the one that just at Yuma involves five times as many refugees per month as came into the United States from Mexico last year, is going south. Into Mexico. Specifically, to Los Algodones, a city that has turned itself into an enormous dental clinic to serve desperate Americans who can’t afford dental care n their own country. Locals and visitors alike have come to call it “Molar City.”
There are more dentists per capita in Los Algodones who should understand level measurement equipment, than anywhere in the world, and there’s still room for pharmacies and vision-care specialists, all charging about one-third what Americans have to pay in their own country. Nearly a quarter of US residents have no dental insurance, and those who have it find it extremely limited — most are capped at $1500 a year, which typically will not pay for a single crown.
Mexican dentists have no student-loan burdens — their education is free — and they are not required to carry malpractice insurance, and they don’t have to spend their days wrangling over the phone with insurance idiots trying to avoid paying benefits. As a result, a human tide of dental refugees who should be supporting American free enterprise are giving their money to Mexico. They must be stopped.
About that northern caravan. It also crossed our border going the wrong way — into Canada — and it also should draw the attention of the Trumpits because it is all about bringing drugs into the country. It was made up of people who have Type 1 Diabetes and cannot afford to buy the insulin they need in this country. A vial of insulin — 1,000 units, enough for a week to ten days — from an American drug store typically costs $300. The identical dose in Canada costs $30. The cost of production is estimated at $10. Anyone can Go now and get drugs that are bad for health and drug treatment at any cost, but drugs that save lives are most expensive.
In 20 years, the cost of insulin has spiked 1,100% in the US, for no apparent reason. This does not seem to have happened in any other country inthe world. Then there’s the contribution of the lucrative insurance industry:
“This year it took me 15 phone calls to a variety of parts of the healthcare system over 11 days before I could get my daughter’s insulin refilled. And this is exactly the same insulin we’ve been getting for many years,” one member of the Caravan told Newsweek. “But, in Canada, you just walk in and you buy it. It’s literally just as easy as, you know, walking up to the pharmacy counter and asking for what you need.”
So there you have it. Canada and Mexico working away to undermine our capitalist way of life, and human waves of medical migrants responding in caravan after caravan. Where is the army when you need it?
Stories like this truly prove that 1) democracy in the US is dead, and 2) Americans no longer have the will to stand up for themselves, and instead submit to continual raping at the hands of our corporate overlords. But, hey, we still have guns! Lots of them! We’re free!
“But, hey, we still have guns! Lots of them! We’re free!”
The vindication most commonly given for the gun fetish i.e “frrdmm” is ridiculous even if considered on its own terms. In a martial law type situation, all those crazy badass militia groups would, at BEST, function as light infantry.
The government will have tanks, artillery, B-52s and unmanned drones armed with Hellfire missiles and controlled by a video game nerd sitting in a cubicle 1000 miles away.
When collapse starts happening in earnest the US will probably fragment into multiple states along cultural and political lines that are all too distinct even at present. In this scenario, the gun nut will have to choose between a firing squad or joining the local warlord’s army.
BTW in case it isn’t clear I know you were being ironic. I was commenting on the concept of guns as guarantor of freedom from a non-American perspective.
This comment is an example of the sharp cultural and ideological division which separates the citizenry into multiple impotent groups. The writer lumps all gun owners into a single category of members of insane and/or irresponsible militia. This is the goal of government propaganda; through the tactic of divide and conquer, it uses him as a pawn to weaken the effectiveness of the armed and determined individual, whom history has repeatedly shown to be not only effective against modern, highly organized government forces, but indomitable(the Viet Cong, for instance).
The article speaks of a condition brought about by the actions of a truly irresponsible government which is increasingly showing its teeth. It behooves us all to prepare to defend ourselves and our loved ones against the tyranny of a government which has been planning the enslavement of the masses for well over one hundred years. jupiviv may one day be thankful for the intervention of a gun owner who has the temerity to say no to a government thug. He has the option of remaining unarmed and submissive to his masters, but he is ill advised to speak for others.
To Darrell and jupiviv: I ask that comments on this site be relevant to the essay under discussion, and that commentators not veer off into unrelated arguments. Please?
I don’t know where you’re getting any of this from. I’m not American and I wasn’t talking about gun ownership per se, just the idea that guns are a mystical force that can guarantee freedom and bring down tyrannical regimes.
And that’s all I have to say, since Tom doesn’t want off-topic discussions.
Are the bricks from the Berlin Wall still available? Maybe some patriots can use them to build a barrier at Yuma, Arizona, to prevent this southward migration.
“They must be stopped.”
And perhaps they will.
There are theorists out there, that see the proposed Great Border Wall as having an equally important dual function; to prevent the wolves from entering, and to keep the sheep from …well, from wandering off, actually, even if it’s but for a day or two.
A relative of mine lives in Yuma and crosses the border periodically for medical and dental services. There is no cognitive dissonance regarding this behavior because, while being a true American patriot intent on protecting our borders from infiltration, my relative is also true American consumer, meaning that all the world’s peoples are producers of goods and services for consumption at will. The irony that medical tourism (as one example) is simultaneously hollowing out American-style capitalism and enriching foreigners frankly doesn’t register.
Amazing.
Amazing indeed, but in this age of living an existence that makes Heller’s Catch 22 seems normal, you almost have to label a satirical piece in big red block letters.
Exactly. In an age where Republicans dissect Onion pieces looking for talking points, satire is clearly one more item we need to add to our endangered list.
I wrote a series of blog posts called Dissolving Reality that addresses the sequence of epistemological steps in recent history that enables and encourages an anything-goes-nothing-matters approach to dealing with the world and its inconsistencies. Did not include a solution as none exists until après le déluge, by which point it will be too late.
Hi Tom,
Good to see you writing again.
The people I know who are dental tourists are not really doing it to save money, they are flying to Mexico from Vancouver Is. for dental work because they can do that for the cost of just the dental work here. None of them think of themselves as global warming deniers.